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are not fun] eft to become rotten, as is the cafe 

 with turnips ; which, from the end of the 

 month of March, become (tringy, tough, and 

 fpungy. 



5. There is no kind of turnips which ever 

 fucceeds perfectly ; they often fail entirely, 

 efpecially in hard lands ; they require a light, 

 good, and fandy foil ; but the Root of Scarci- 

 ty will fucceed every where ; the cultivators 

 of different kinds of lands may be equally 

 allured of fuccefs and farmers and labourers 

 may be greatly benefitted by this refpurce. 



6. The milk produced by cows who have 

 been nourimed for fome days together with 

 turnips, contracts a tafte like tallow, or flrong, 

 four, and difagreeable ; but thofe, who are 

 fed with the Root of Scarcity, produce both 

 milk and butter of an excellent quality. $ 



After this parallel, which Lhave made with 

 an exact regard to truth, and which will un- 

 doubtedly be verified by all thofe for whom 

 I have procured the feed of the Root of 

 Scarcity, it will no more, I hope, be con- 

 founded 



